"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

haha my brother-in-law's uncle is a weird dude to begin with but now i'm seeing strange comments from him on my sister's facebook page. it's freaking me out that he's going to find me next! alsdkgj!

Apparently your activity on other websites may soon show up on Facebook's news feed. I was forwarded an e-mail from my girlfriend's co-worker that said that after he bought something on Amazon, a comment about the purchase then appeared on Facebook, even though he uses a different e-mail address for each site. MoveOn.org is starting a petition against this blatant privacy violation, and they've created a Facebook group as well.

More from the NYTimes.

Yeah this is part of the new advertising model cooked up to attempt to justify Facebook's ridiculous overvaluation (see also becoming a 'fan' of things). *Apparently* you can opt out of this somewhere but I'm going to be keeping an eye on my newsfeed whenever I buy something.

There is a huge potential backlash here.

I went to my privacy settings to see if I could turn this off, and it said that no websites had tried sending my data to Facebook yet, so there was nothing I could do, even preemptively.

I just saw this via kv_nol posting a comment on Facebook - how the fuck does this work anyway? How does Amazon etc know what yr Facebook account is? Via your cookies or something? This sounds pretty fucked up. Not that I've noticed anything on my news feed yet.

Amazon & FB both use email addresses as logins - I assume they're just feeding back for every email address that matches up on both sites.

Well, as I said upthread, my girlfriend's co-worker uses different e-mails for Facebook and Amazon, so he was guessing IP address (although that doesn't seem like it would be very accurate if you share your computer with someone else).

domain cookies

http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/

Sorry jaymc, didn't notice you said they were different emails. As you say IP addresses are no good (I share one of my work IPs with a squillion others). Unless they're 100% sure about someone's identity (and even if they are!) this could lead to some very dodgy situations.

xpost thanks Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃 - if that's the case it can be prevented locally, though many wouldn't know how to do it

http://www.realclimate.org/images/Sheep.jpg

WHAT'S NEXT GUYS? WHERE TO?

I like facebook, and lord knows I like scrabble, but lord also knows that if I get just one notification from facebook that says "Congratulations! We're going to tell all your friends that you heartily endorse the Hitachi Magic Wand!" I am so deleting my account and never looking back.

WHAT'S NEXT GUYS? WHERE TO?

Kenan, don't go! I mean, fuck it, just ignore those notifications. I unselected most so I don't get'em in my email account. And you can go directly to Scrab, bypassing FB and stuff. :-)

My mum ignored my friend request. BITCH. ;-)

nath, the point is not that I'm mildly itchy when I get too many notifications, it's... um... where to begin?

If I get bitten by another werewolf I will consider deleting my account too.

OTM. Werewolves, pirates, zombies: I don't have time for that shit.

How long before there's a malicious app that tells everyone's entire friends list exactly which porn sites they've been looking at?

OTM. Werewolves, pirates, zombies: I don't have time for that shit.

-- jaymc, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:02 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^ maybe you should join a facebook group about this?

Facebook's security registration code got personal on me this afternoon:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4626/facebooksecuritycheckao1.jpg

xpost doesnt have time as he's hiding from all those nasties

Woh, is this Amazon thing true? I just bought a load of Christmas presents on Amazon - is Facebook going to ruin Christmas for all my friends and family? Won't someone think of the children!!

Show your friends what you like and what you're up to outside of Facebook. When you take actions on the sites listed below, you can choose to have those actions sent to your profile.

Please note that these settings only affect notifications on Facebook. You will still be notified on affiliate websites when they send stories to Facebook. You will be able to decline individual stories at that time.

No sites have tried sending stories to your profile

wtf

I have to wait for this shit?

Mr non-villageperson has a very good point on the presents thing. This is insanity.

wait, whats a hitachi magic wand?

you've been missing out, my friend

(j/k)

No more 'is' in status!

That mong guy that's shit is thinking that is such a good idea!!! roll on Friday tho!!!

i campaigned for this, but now i have a kind of empty feeling inside lol.

A victory for the peeple.

took me ages to think of a status that didn't require 'is'

boooo. bring it back.

Eventually I went with "Gemma sometimes likes daylights saving" but it somehow sounds completely wrong

boooo. bring it back.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:58 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this

You crazy. If you want "is" just type "is".

You actually have an "is" in there automatically that you have the option of deleting. They should maybe add an autocorrect option for "sooooooooo tired" and "looking forward to the weekend" while they're at it.

Or just automatically change them all to "is some boring cunt you went to school with who never left their hometown, has just bought their first house and is married to one of the old gang, whoop de fuckin doo"

one of my tiny number of "friends" has 1,300+ friends, and i was looking for a mutual friend of ours in them, and he had two people who had the (fairly uncommon) name i was looking for, and neither of them were her, and there was no obvious connection (eg one was an american high school student) to my guy... so i think he friended them on the basis 'lol u have a name like my friend who isn't on facebook'. weird.

oh my god i think i might do that now.

xpost

Or just automatically change them all to "is some boring cunt you went to school with who never left their hometown, has just bought their first house and is married to one of the old gang, whoop de fuckin doo"

that's gonna be mine. lol satire

snarky. I have hardly any school friends on my friends list... just current friends.

Em*ly C******r is soooo tird of the kidz bt lookin 4wrd to top gear

emily should buy some vowels. and consonants.

Carol Vorderman is bribeable?

CRUTIS IS LISTED AS IN A RELATIONSHIP

I've been in a relationship

yeah cutty this isn't exackly news